Plainfield · Licensed center
The Apple Tree Pre-School
- Small center, licensed for 32 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What these mean, and where they come from
Small means the smallest quarter of Chicago-area’s 1,949 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 8 to 48 children. Medium is 49 to 118; large is 119 to 487.
Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
What the state has found
Routine visits: 2 of 3 cited something
Chicago-area centers: the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits. Three visits are too few to read as a pattern.
From Illinois DCFS’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — Illinois DCFS
- Last visit
- May 9, 2025
- On file
- 3 visits since November 2023 — 1 cited nothing
- Fixed?
- The latest correction deadline was October 11, 2024. Illinois DCFS does not publish whether it was made.
- Most serious
- Illinois DCFS does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.
Illinois DCFS cites each subsection of a rule separately, so one audit of a filing cabinet can produce ten citations. It publishes the rule’s title and a correction deadline, but no description of what was observed.
Sep 2024 Monitoring visit 2 findings
Monitoring visit · September 11, 2024
General Requirements for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.100(f) · Violation corrected
Background Checks for Personnel
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.110 · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 580271 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
Nov 2023 Monitoring visit 3 findings
Monitoring visit · November 13, 2023
Personnel Records
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.120(a)(3) · Violation corrected
Health Requirements for Children
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.310(a) · Violation corrected
Nutrition and Meal Service
1 citation · 89 Ill. Adm. Code 407.330(g)(2) · Violation corrected
DCFS compliance lookup On that page, enter provider number 580271 in the Provider box and choose Search; the compliance report downloads from the button on the result row.
How the comparison is built
Routine visits: across Chicago-area centers, the state cites something at about 5 in 6 routine visits (19,088 visits).
Details
- Address
- 24020 W Fraser Rd
- License
- license issued (il)
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All checked August 2026.
State record
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Details
- Phone, Address, License sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov. To check it, open sunshine.dcfs.illinois.gov's Licensed Provider Lookup, enter "THE APPLE TREE PRE-SCHOOL" under Provider Name and 60586 under Zip, and press Search (DCFS provider 580271).